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Chicanx

/t͡ʃɪˈkɑːn.ɛks/

Chicanx adjective: chicano or Chicana (and of any gender).

Adjective

Chicanx (not comparable)

  1. (neologism) Chicano or Chicana (and of any gender).
    • By reframing the archive through a rereading (or reinterpretation) of The Conquest, Sara enables Chicanx collective memory to provide an entirely new context (Chicanx and Latin American) that the creators of the archive never imagined[.]2016, Roberta Rice, Gordana Yovanovich, Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society in Latin America, →ISBN
    • We can now legitimately look to the Americas, to the indigenous, to the African American, to the Chicanx, or to the Puerto Riqueña to inform new understandings of rhetorical functions and histories.2016, Iris D. Ruiz, Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and Other Ethnic Minorities, →ISBN

Noun

Chicanx (plural Chicanxs)

  1. (neologism) A Chicano or Chicana (of any gender).
    • It was seen as negative until Chicanxs took it back.2015 December, Hasta Mas alla De Los Gritos, page 4
    • […] Chicanxs are aware of past struggles over space and draw on them in contemporary struggles, which focus on gentrification and its alternative, “gentefication” (the uplift of the neighborhood by locals and other Chicanxs and Latinxs)[…]2023 April 3, Catherine Whittaker, Eveline Dürr, Jonathan Alderman, Carolin Luiprecht, Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    Chican@

Synonyms of Chicanx

Forms of Chicanx

pluralChicanxs

Origin of Chicanx

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.

Questions about Chicanx

What does Chicanx mean?
Chicanx means chicano or Chicana (and of any gender).
What part of speech is Chicanx?
Chicanx can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Chicanx?
Chicanx is pronounced /t͡ʃɪˈkɑːn.ɛks/.

Words near Chicanx in the dictionary

  1. chicanings
  2. Chicanismo
  3. Chicano
  4. Chicano studies
  5. Chicanos
  6. Chicanx
  7. Chicanxs
  8. chicas
  9. chiccories
  10. chiccory
  11. chicer

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